Expert Consensus on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis with Multiple Medicine of Minorities
Knee osteoarthritis(KOA)is a common and high-incidence teratogenic and disabling chronic disease in our society,which seriously affects the physical and mental health and life quality of patients.KOA has main clinical manifestations of pain and joint dysfunction.Ethnic medicine has unique advantages in relieving these clinical symptoms,promoting recovery,and impro-ving life quality of patients.However,the current diagnosis and treatment plan does not include content related to ethnic medicine.In view of this,on the basis of analyzing and summarizing existing diagnosis and treatment standards,this consensus integrates China's national conditions,fully takes into account various factors such as ethnic composition,regional characteristics,and dietary environment,and based on existing literature reports,selected representatives of the 7 authoritative organizations and experts in the field of ethnic medicine,Chinese medicine,Mongolian medicine,Tibetan medicine,Yi medicine,Dai medicine,Yao medicine,and Wei medicine.Experts took the lead and jointly formulated an expert consensus on KOA dominant diseases with distinct characteristics of ethnic medicine.The consensus proposed KOA diagnosis,traditional Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine dialectical classifica-tion,therapy and prescriptions,special treatment techniques,and etc.,which improves the existing diagnosis and treatment plan,made up for the shortcomings of previous expert consensus in terms of universality,and is applicable for guiding diagnosis and treatment activities on KOA by traditional Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine.